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friday,january 23.2004
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Variety show at Union to start second semester with laughs
Various student groups have combined efforts to entertain returning students tonight with a comedy and magic show called Friday Night Live.
The show will begin at 9 p.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom and will feature comedian Amy Anderson, magician Brian Brushwood and a student joke contest with a $300 first prize.
The event is sponsored by The Association of University Residence Halls, Hawk Nights, Student Senate, Student Union Activities and Coke.
Rachel Hurlbert, Union Programs Assistant, said the event had drawn 300 to 400 students in the past and she expected another good turnout.
"This year, with the long break, we think people will be anxious to come here and see their friends," Hurlbert said.
Hurlbert said Brushwood, who has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, had changed earlier plans so he could attend the event and he would perform new material.
Andy Marso
SLAB to sponsor lunch for students and legislators
The Student Legislative Awareness Board has arranged a luncheon for students and state legislators Monday at the State Capitol in Topeka.
The event is open to all students and is free, with the lunches donated by the Kansas Union. Buses will leave from the Union at 11:15 a.m.
The buses will leave Topeka at 5 p.m. after legislative committee meetings.
Blake Shuart. Student Legislative Awareness Board Director, said students were encouraged to stay after the luncheon to visit with their state representatives and attend a Higher Education Committee meeting. He said students were welcome to drive separately if they wanted to attend the luncheon only.
Shuart said at least 10 to 15 legislators would attend the luncheon and he hoped for about 20.
Topics for discussion at the luncheon will include Governor Kathleen Sebelius' proposed 3 percent increase to the state's higher education budget.
Students should contact the Student Senate office if they are interested in attending.
Andy Marso
KU graduates ranked second in aerospace competition
Six University of Kansas aerospace engineering graduates won second place in the national 2002-2003 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics student design competition. University Relations announced Tuesday.
The May 2003 graduates won a $1,500 team award for an ultra-heavy-lift platform aircraft called the KUMODO dragon.
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Jan Roskam, retired professor of aerospace engineering, advised the team, whose design was capable of transporting 1.2 million pounds.
In the past 21 years, Roskam's teams have earned 26 first-place prizes and 13 second-place awards in AIAA national contests.
Mark Ewing, chairman of aerospace engineering, said this could result in a lot of pressure on the students.
"We pretty much expect our teams to get first or second place in these competitions, and they usually do," Ewing said.
The team prepared the design as part of a senior undergraduate class activity during the Spring 2003 semester, and awards were announced in Fall 2003.
The nonprofit AIAA Foundation sponsors the contests to recognize excellence in aerospace engineering studies as well as to increase the practical skills of students.
Dustin Kasson, 19. Lawrence, died Jan. 6. Kasson was a freshman in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He was found in his home.
Lawrence freshman found dead in home during break
- Neeley J. Spellmeier
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Jessie Rieper, Overland Park freshman, waited to hear the grand total while buying textbooks for the spring semester at Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road. Last minute shoppers filled area bookstores yesterday afternoon, scrambling to buy books before classes began today.
100TH ANNIVERSARY
FROM THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN ARCHIVES
JAN.23
Twenty years ago
Columnist Helaine Kaskel called attention to the poor safety conditions outside of Watson Library. She wrote that the shrubs and poorly lit steps made the walk from Jayhawk Boulevard to the library dangerous.
"Although large amounts of time and money were spent to make Watson's exterior impressive, apparently very little was allocated to make it safe and accessible," she wrote. Thirty years ago
Candidates for student body president and vice president criticized each other's platforms.
"The biggest problem with their platform is that it's just the same old B.S. that we've been hearing for God knows how long." Ed Rolfs, Junction City sophomore and candidate for president, said about his opponent's platform Sixty years ago
Student participation in the Fourth War Loan Drive at the University didn't live up to expectations. Students weren't giving as much as faculty.
"Students will have to realize," said Betty Jo O'Neal, major in the Coed Volunteer Corps, "that they cannot contribute much to the war effort by merely purchasing defense stamps.
They will have to dig down deep, or save a little here and there to really add to the Fourth War Loan by buying a war bond."
Ninoty years ago
A committee was formed to establish a student union, or "get-together rooms where any student can loaf and feel absolutely at home."
The committee planned to rent a house in the student district, furnish it as cheaply as possible and open it as the first student union at the University. The chairman said men would be able to fraternize and amuse themselves.
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Hall Center for the Humanities is sponsoring a philosophy and literature seminar titled Why Some Russians Don't Like Kant with Maria Carlson, professor of Slavic languages and literatures, from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday at the Hall Center conference room. The paper for this seminar is available in an Adobe PDF file on the Hall Center Web site. To obtain a copy please contact the Hall Center for a password. This seminar is directed by Edith Clowes, Slavic languages & literature. Contact 864-2359 or eclowes@ku.edu. The seminar is free
wes@ku.edu. The seminar is free.
The Department of Physics and Astronomy is sponsoring a physics and astronomy colloquium at 4 p.m. Monday at 2074 Malott Hall. The title of the colloquium is Stardust: Observational Evidence of Mass-Loss Processes During the Late Stages of Stellar Evolution with Angela Speck. Coffee and cookies will be served at 3:30 p.m. at 1089 Malott.
The Department of Geology is sponsoring a colloquium titled Reservoir Scale Heterogeneity of Carbohate Platforms — Some Constraints from the Miocene of the Western Mediterranean with Luis Pomar, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, at 4 p.m. Monday at 103 Lindley Hall.
Russian and East European Studies is sponsoring the Laird Brown Bag Lecture from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday at 318 Bailey Hall. The title of the lecture is Remarking Political Identity; Official Efforts to Cultivate Values in the Last Decade of the Tsarist Regime with Don Wright, Command and General Staff College.
University Governance is having a SenEx meeting at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the Regents Room in Strong Hall. For information call 864-5475 or e-mail www.ku.edu/~unigov.
The KU Symphony Orchestra and Camerata are having open auditions for string players from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow at 118 Murphy Hall. For more information or to schedule an audition, call Steven McDonald at 841-4696.
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